Saturday 5 October 2013

Monolith, Voyager (2013)

Tracklist:
  1. Prisoner of War
  2. Patrimony
  3. Inertia
  4. Named
  5. Initiation
  6. Frontier
  7. Endurance
  8. Communion
  9. Fortification
  10. Onslaught
  11. Desolation
  12. Fear and Trembling


As the summer sun turns to autumn rain, the good people of this earth demand intergalactic escapism to deliver them from the terrestrial gloom.  And lo!  From the icy wastes of Canada have arrived our saviours: a trio of bright young sparks returning with their second full-length record of bombastic space-edged melodic prog-death metal.  Monolith’s superb new album, Voyager, delivers just as much as it promises, and it’s a lot: zangy synth; battering blastbeats; chugging chords; and a wild vortex of clean and death-growl vocals.